Dunkeld Bridge View
SC 509140
Description Dunkeld Bridge View
Date 25/8/1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 509140
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Dunkeld Bridge, Perthshire This is a seven-span masonry road bridge 209m long, designed by Thomas Telford to replace a dangerous ferry over the river Tay. Part of the cost was met by the Duke of Atholl, and the detailing of the bridge is more elaborate than usual for Telford. This view shows the bridge from the north east, showing the five main segmental arches. Note the in-and-out arrangement of the arch stones, a fashionable treatment of the period, and the semicircular projections with mock arrow-slits. There are smaller accommodation arches at each end, a tollhouse at the south end, and a room in the north abutment intended as a prison but not used for that purpose. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/260/3
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